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Technopreneur Leon Tan gets his dream geek-fest

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Malaysia’s first complete-duration stereoscopic 3D lively movie has hit neighborhood cinemas How the imaginative and prescient eventually became reality has lessons for all entrepreneurs THE innovative minds behind War of The Worlds: Goliath ( WoTW: Goliath ) are on the studio of the BFM enterprise radio station, in between umpteen interviews they had been facing in the media blitz main as much as the movie’s gala most useful within the weekend.   The news changed into in: Barack Obama had simply been re-elected President of the United States. The two Americans – director Joe Pearson and writer David Abramowitz – be part of the entire BFM group to pay attention to Obama’s victory speech. They have interviews scheduled with BFM and Digital News Asia (DNA), however this turned into records in the making.   As the speech winds down, Pearson goes into some other room for a video interview. The Malaysian manufacturer of WoTW: Goliath , Leon Tan – actually on his way to becoming a fami...

Vincent Tan wows start-ups at Disrupt

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He may be 60, but Vincent Tan says he ‘understands the distance’ Internet investments have cost him around RM290mil however yielded a RM1.3bil valuation ACCORDING to a Berjaya Group worker who saw Tan Sri Vincent Tan in motion, the billionaire founding father of the Group turned into in “top shape” in the course of his look as a unique panelist at the DNA-TeAM Disrupt networking consultation currently.   Indeed Tan regaled the target audience with anecdotes, spoke approximately how they [him and MOL head honcho Ganesh Kumar Bangah] slashed the losses of Friendster from US$10 million to US$1 million with the aid of slicing out the operations in excessive price locations, then brought a severe feel of gravity to the occasion through sharing his fear over the monetary impact the poor exceptional of English will have on nowadays’s graduating personnel and on the destiny competitiveness of Malaysia.   “Terrible” and “pathetic” is how he describes the level these days, expressing his p...

Vincent Tan: Young people deserve ‘Angels’

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Billionaire entrepreneur believes in the law of averages; a guiding precept for him Believes in 2nd possibilities however could-be marketers should display their mettle by way of sacrificing and roughing it out to succeed IT'S no longer every day that you get to fulfill a billionaire at an informal occasion, however that’s exactly what over 100 human beings got to do on the Oct sixteen DNA-TeAM Disrupt occasion held on the Plug & Play Technology Garden in Kuala Lumpur, wherein Tan Sri Vincent Tan, one of the wealthiest guys in the united states, was on hand to field questions. Themed “Are angels from Heaven?” the second installment of DNA-TeAM Disrupt noticed Tan, founding father of the Berjaya Corporation, inside the residence along with Johnathan Lee (percent, left) , vp of commercialization and ventures at Cradle Fund. Tan (percent, middle) became in his detail, regaling the packed crowd with memories of ways he views entrepreneurship, along with how younger human ...

What would you ask Vincent Tan?

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Pick your Top five from DNA’s list, or ask your personal burning question Second ‘Disrupt’ completely booked inside 16 hours SO what questions would you want Tan Sri Vincent Tan, founding father of Berjaya Group Bhd, to answer at the second DNA-TeAM Disrupt series?   Note that we are able to restriction our questions to the area of making an investment in generation, particularly the Internet.   Not enormously, the 110 seats for the event had been taken up. The RSVP went up at 6pm on Friday, Oct 12, and with the aid of 10am the next day, all the seats had been taken. But not to worry, TeAM (the Technopreneur Association of Malaysia) plans to have some video highlights up the day after the event.   But for folks that did no longer get their seats, here is an possibility as a way to get in a query you've got. Just percentage the question you most want Tan to reply, within the remarks segment at the lowest of this newsletter. Also tell us why you need that question posed to him,...

Berjaya’s Vincent Tan at DNA-TeAM Disrupt next week

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Berjaya rich person to talk approximately his revel in as an angel to tech corporations Cradle’s Johnathan Lee to also percentage his observations on angel making an investment in Malaysia AT remaining month’s inaugural DNA-TeAM Disrupt occasion, I had asked the target market if they would really like to concentrate to Tan Sri Vincent Tan, non-executive chairman of the Berjaya Group, communicate approximately his reports investing in generation corporations and especially as Ganesh Kumar Bangah’s [now head honcho of the MOL Group] angel investor back in 2002.   Naturally the 70-sturdy target audience stated “sure.” For next Tuesday’s (Oct sixteen) Disrupt, I suspect the gang can be slightly larger, even though we've not advertised the occasion until now.   But I bet whilst your guest is Tan himself, some ultimate-minute adjustments to schedules may be accommodated if it’s a chance to pay attention to his mind on being an investor in such a lot of tech groups.   I take into ac...